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JOHN HARWOOD BACON...
Salamn (UC), defeated Foster, 14-16, 10-15, 15-10, 15-6, 18-16; Nawn (UC), defeated Warning, 15-13, 15-3, 15-5; Clarke (H), defeated Vanderhoof, 15-8, 13-16, 12-15, 15-11, 18-15; Bacon (H), defeated Garman, 15-12, 13-15, 15-11, 15-9; Tashjiar (UC), defeated Wood...
Cornish (HC); defeated Foster (H), 15- 10, 14-18, 15-5, 15-12; Street (HC), defeated Nawn (H), 17-14, 17-18, 17-13, 15-10. Clark (H), defeated Foster (HC), 15-12, 15-7, 12-15, 15-12; Clarke (HC), defeated Bacon (H); 16-13, 15-13, 7-15, 16-14; Brauns (HC), defeated Hoar...
Likes & Dislikes. They made a study of food likes & dislikes. They found that New Englanders ate most of the corned beef in the U.S., preferred their corn yellow, their eggs brown, and liked a wider, fatter bacon than most other Americans. They found that prim-mouthed Philadelphia was the nation's biggest market for dried prunes, and ate more ice cream per capita than any other city in the world. Richmond liked "triple succotash," a mixture of lima beans, corn and potatoes; Scranton, Pa. bought more butter per capita than any other city...
Thus, on giving some of her characters a whacking oldtime breakfast of bacon & eggs, Author Thirkell feels bound to give credibility to the occasion by explaining that a friend of one of the guests "had a licence to keep pigs" and the host's hens "happened to be laying." A well-stuffed tea bin is hastily attributed to "hoarded American gifts," while the gay poppings of corks (which resound throughout the book) are thanks to "a pal at Portsmouth" or even "an old pal of mine, Pinky Smith [who] sends me . . . rum from the West Indies." There is also...